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Summary
Top 100 patent holders, U.S. and non-U.S. entities (excluding subsidiaries)
Rank U.S. and non-U.S. entities (excluding subsidiaries) Utility patents held
    Title (patent number)  
 Number
1 PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC. 449
     Wheat and method of producing the same (4406086)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (4731499)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (4737596)  
     Inbred corn line PHR25 (4806652)  
     Inbred corn line PHK05 (4806669)  
     Inbred corn line PHV78 (4812599)  
     Inbred corn like PHK29 (4812600)  
     Method and inoculant for preserving agricultural products for animal feed (4842871)  
     Plant virus cDNA (4921802)  
     Bacterial treatment to preserve silage (4981705)  
     Biological control of corn seed rot and seedling blight (4996049)  
     Selective medium for propionibacterium growth (5026647)  
     Method for affecting fertility in plant variants (5049503)  
     Inbred corn line PHN37 (5082991)  
     Inbred corn line PHP02 (5082992)  
     Inbred corn line PHK35 (5095174)  
     Inbred corn line PHR62 (5097092)  
     Inbred corn line PHJ33 (5097093)  
     Inbred corn line PHP60 (5097094)  
     Inbred corn line PHM10 (5097095)  
     Inbred corn line PHW20 (5097096)  
     Inbred corn line PHN82 (5157206)  
     Inbred corn line PHN73 (5157208)  
     Inbred corn line PHR63 (5159132)  
     Inbred corn line PHV37 (5159133)  
     Inbred corn line PHP55 (5159134)  
     DNA isolation method (5204246)  
     Inbred corn line PHJ65 (5220114)  
     Particle gun (5240855)  
     Inbred corn line PHJ90 (5245125)  
     Hybrid sorghum plant and seed 8358 (5260503)  
     Sunflower products having lower levels of saturated fatty acids (5276264)  
     Inbred corn line PHR31 (5276265)  
     Inbred corn line PHBW8 (5285004)  
     Inbred corn line PHT47 (5304719)  
     Inbred corn line PHHV4 (5304720)  
     Virus resistant plants having antisense RNA (5316930)  
     Soybean transformation by microparticle bombardment (5322783)  
     Methods of regeneration of Medicago sativa and expressing foreign DNA in same (5324646)  
     Inbred corn line PHGV6 (5347079)  
     Inbred corn line PHK74 (5347080)  
     Inbred corn line PHK56 (5347081)  
     Inbred corn line PHTM9 (5349119)  
     Inbred corn line PHEW7 (5354941)  
     Inbred corn line PHEM9 (5354942)  
     Antisense gene systems of pollination control for hybrid seed production (5356799)  
     Inbred corn line PHMKO (5365014)  
     Inbred corn line PHHB9 (5367109)  
     Identification and localization and introgression into plants of desired multigenic traits (5385835)  
     Inbred corn line PHGW7 (5387754)  
     Inbred corn line PHFA5 (5387755)  
     Production of improved rapeseed exhibiting a reduced saturated fatty acid content (5387758)  
     Brassica regulatory sequence for root-specific or root-abundant gene expression (5401836)  
     Larvicidal lectins and plant insect resistance based thereon (5407454)  
     Pollen-specific promoter from maize (5412085)  
     Inbred corn line PHRE1 (5416254)  
     Binary cryptocytotoxic method of hybrid seed production (5426041)  
     Maize dwarf mosaic virus cDNA (5428144)  
     Control of male fertility using externally inducible promoter sequences (5432068)  
     Inbred corn line PHT11 (5434346)  
     Inbred corn line PHR03 (5436390)  
     Inbred corn line PHHB4 (5444178)  
     Inbred corn line PHTE4 (5453564)  
     Sunflower products having lower levels of saturated fatty acids (5461171)  
     Inbred corn line PHR61 (5463173)  
     Synthetic antifungal peptides (5464944)  
     Regulatory element conferring tapetum specificity (5470359)  
     F, hybrids and method for producing hybrids using corn inbred PHR63 (5476999)  
     Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility and method of using same (5478369)  
     Peptide with inhibitory activity towards plant pathogenic fungi (5488035)  
     Soybean cyst nematode resistant soybeans and methods of breeding and identifying resistant plants (5491081)  
     Inbred corn line PHKM5 (5491286)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (3905) (5491287)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (3279) (5491289)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (3525) (5491290)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (5491295)  
     Inbred corn line PHW06 (5495065)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (3531) (5495066)  
     Inbred corn line PHTE4 (5495069)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (3563) (5502272)  
     Inbred corn line PHP38 (5506367)  
     Inbred corn line PHN82 (5506368)  
     Seed vigor by pre-harvest defoliation of maize plants (5518989)  
     Inbred corn line PHTD5 (5527986)  
     Hybrid corn plant and seed (3189) (5530180)  
     Inbred maize line PHAP1 (5530184)  
     Inbred maize line PHKW3 (5534661)  
     Inbred corn line PHRD6 (5541352)  
     Inbred corn line PHK46 (5543575)  
     Pollen-specific promoter from maize (5545546)  
     Inbred maize line PHBG4 (5545809)  
     Inbred maize line PHNJ2 (5545812)  
     Inbred maize line PHRF5 (5545813)  
     Inbred maize line PHFR8 (5545814)  
     Production of improved rapeseed exhibiting a reduced saturated fatty acid content (5545821)  
     Inbred corn line PHN18 (5557034)  
     Hybrid corn plant & seed (3489) (5557035)  
     Inbred maize line PHTP9 (5557038)  
     Method of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cultured soybean cells (5563055)  
     Inbred maize line PH54B (5563320)  
     Inbred maize line PHGF5 (5563321)  
     Inbred maize line PHAG6 (5563322)  
     Inbred maize line PHAP9 (5563323)  
     Inbred maize line PHBE2 (5563325)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3860) (5563326)  
     Inbred corn line PHN46 (5567861)  
     Inbred maize line phajo (5569816)  
     Inbred maize line PHJJ3 (5569817)  
     Inbred maize line phap8 (5569818)  
     Inbred maize line PHPP8 (5569819)  
     Inbred corn line PHT11 (5569821)  
     Inbred corn line phte4 (5569822)  
     Maize chlorotic dwarf virus and resistance thereto (5569828)  
     Hybrid corn plant (3893) (5574208)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3951) (5574209)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3375) (5576472)  
     Derivatives of tachyplesin having inhibitory activity towards plant pathogenic fungi (5580852)  
     Methods and compositions for controlling plant development (5583210)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3753) (5585537)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3936) (5585538)  
     Disease resistance gene from maize and its use for disease resistance as a selectable marker and as a gene identification probe (5589611)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3223) (5602312)  
     Inbred corn line PHAAO (5602317)  
     Inbred maize line PHDG1 (5602318)  
     Inbred maize line PHKV1 (5608138)  
     Inbred maize line PHO5F (5608139)  
     Inbred maize line PH38B (5608140)  
     Plant genes affecting gibberellic acid biosynthesis (5612191)  
     Inbred maize line PH42B (5618987)  
     Inbred corn line PHDD6 (5625129)  
     Oilseed Brassica bearing an endogenous oil wherein the levels of oleic, alpha-linolenic, and saturated fatty acids are simultaneously provided in an atypical highly beneficial distribution via genetic control (5625130)  
     Inbred maize line PH08B (5625132)  
     Inbred maize line PHOC7 (5625133)  
     Inbred corn line PHHB (5633427)  
     Microspore-specific regulatory element (5633438)  
     Production of improved rapeseed exhibiting an enhanced oleic acid content (5638637)  
     Inbred maize line PHDP0 (5639946)  
     ALS3 promoter (5659026)  
     Pentaclethera macroloba protein having insecticidal properties (5672680)  
     Inbred maize line PH06N (5675066)  
     Inbred maize line PH24E (5689034)  
     Brown stem rot resistance in soybeans (5689035)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3730) (5689036)  
     Transgenic plant and method for producing male sterility using anther specific promoter 5126 (5689049)  
     Transgenic plants and DNA comprising anther specific promoter 5126 and gene to achieve male sterility (5689051)  
     High methionine derivatives of .alpha.-hordothionin for pathogen-control (5703049)  
     Inbred corn line PHP38 (5708189)  
     Helianthus annuus bearing an endogenous oil wherein the levels of palmitic acid and oleic acid are provided in an atypical combination via genetic control (5710366)  
     Substitutes for modified starch and latexes in paper manufacture (5712107)  
     Fumonisin detoxification enzymes (5716820)  
     Synthetic antimicobial peptides (5717061)  
     Methods for maintaining sterility in plants (5717129)  
     Inbred maize line PHND1 (5723722)  
     Inbred maize line PH44A (5723723)  
     Cellulose synthesis in the storage tissue of transgenic plants (5723764)  
     4 strain direct-fed microbial (5725853)  
     Molecular methods of hybrid seed production (5728558)  
     Methods and compositions for controlling plant development (5728817)  
     Inbred maize line PHBF0 (5728919)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3970) (5728920)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3260) (5728921)  
     Antisense gene systems of pollination control for hybrid seed production (5728926)  
     Methods of regeneration of Medicago sativa and expressing foreign DNA in same (5731202)  
     Inbred maize line PHNG2 (5731491)  
     Inbred maize line PH19A (5731492)  
     Inbred maize line PH63B (5731493)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3820) (5731494)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3491) (5731496)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3310) (5731497)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3153) (5731499)  
     Method for producing transgenic cereal plants (5736369)  
     Virus resistant plants having coat protein (5736627)  
     Molecular methods of hybrid seed production (5741684)  
     Bacterial treatment for silage (5747020)  
     Use of the indeterminate gametophyte gene for maize improvement (5749169)  
     Inbred maize line PHOAA (5750829)  
     Inbred maize line PH25A (5750831)  
     Inbred maize line PH44G (5750832)  
     Inbred maize line PH80B (5750834)  
     Inbred maize line PH47A (5750835)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3941) (5750838)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3341) (5750839)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seeds (3237) (5750841)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3914) (5750842)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3940) (5750843)  
     Inbred maize line PH38D (5750847)  
     Inbred maize line PH05W (5750849)  
     Reversible nuclear genetic system for male sterility in transgenic plants (5750868)  
     Use of a microspore-specific regulatory element for production of virus and insect-resistant plants (5756324)  
     Pentaclethra macroloba derived substances having insecticide, agglutination and aminopeptidase inhibition activity (5756661)  
     Plant QM proteins (5760190)  
     Reversible nuclear genetic system for male sterility in transgenic plants (5763243)  
     Inbred maize line PH63A (5763743)  
     Inbred maize line PH67A (5763744)  
     Inbred maize line PH20A (5763746)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3082) (5763747)  
     Inbred maize line PH07D (5763757)  
     Inbred maize line PHBR2 (5767340)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (34E79) (5767343)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (32H39) (5767344)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (33Y18) (5767347)  
     Plant genes affecting gibberellic acid biosynthesis (5767375)  
     Inbred maize line PH41E (5770790)  
     Plant genes affecting gibberellic acid biosynthesis (5773288)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3568) (5773682)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (39B42) (5773684)  
     Genetic constructs and methods for producing fruits with very little or diminished seed (5773697)  
     Buchloe dactyloides extacts having insecticidal properties (5783190)  
     Reversible nuclear genetic system for male sterility in transgenic plants (5792853)  
     Soybean variety 9492 (5792907)  
     Soybean variety 97b61 (5792908)  
     Soybean variety 93B83 (5792909)  
     Soybean variety 9294 (5792910)  
     Inbred maize line PH24M (5792911)  
     Inbred maize line PH00M (5792912)  
     Inbred maize line PHOAV (5792915)  
     Fumonisin detoxification compositions and methods (5792931)  
     Reversible nuclear genetic system for male sterility in transgenic plants (5795753)  
     Beauvericin detoxification compositions and methods (5798255)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (35R57) (5804691)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (33R87) (5804692)  
     Inbred maize line PH40B (5811637)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3743E) (5811638)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3522) (5811639)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (34M55) (5811650)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (33T90) (5811651)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (38R21) (5817918)  
     Nucleotide sequences mediating fertility and method of using same (5824524)  
     Soybean variety 9363 (5824844)  
     Maize gene and protein for insect control (5824864)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (3231) (5827940)  
     PCR-based cDNA substractive cloning method (5837468)  
     Regulatory element conferring tapetum specificity (5837850)  
     DNA promoter 5126 and constructs useful in a reversible nuclear genetic system for male sterility in transgenic plants (5837851)  
     Inbred maize line PH05G (5841015)  
     Inbred maize line PH1W2 (5844116)  
     Inbred maize line PHOGP (5844117)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (32K61) (5844118)  
     Zearalenone detoxification compositions and methods (5846812)  
     Inbred maize line PH1MR (5850007)  
     Inbred maize line PH0HC (5850009)  
     Inbred maize lind PH56C (5850010)  
     Soybean variety 93B11 (5850011)  
     Soybean variety 92B61 (5850012)  
     Soybean Variety 92B52 (5850013)  
     Nucleotide sequences mediating ferility and method of using same (5850014)  
     Alteration of amino acid compositions in seeds (5850016)  
     Expression control sequence for general and effective expression of genes in plants (5850018)  
     Reduction of endogenous seed protein levels in plants (5850024)  
     Soybean variety 92B91 (5852225)  
     Soybean variety 93B82 (5852226)  
     PCR-based cDNA subtractive cloning method (5853991)  
     Inbred maize line PHKVO (5859313)  
     Inbred maize line PH0HR (5859316)  
     Inbred maize line PH22G (5859317)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (34G81) (5859318)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (39K72) (5859319)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (37M81) (5859320)  
     Nucleotide sequences mediating fertility and method of using same (5859341)  
     Inbred maize line PH09B (5859354)  
     Inbred maize line PH10A (5861541)  
     Hybrid sunflower plant and seed (63A51) (5866765)  
     Inbred sunflower line PHA262 (5866766)  
     Inbred maize line PH79A (5866767)  
     Inbred maize line PHO2T (5866768)  
     Fatty acid alteration by a 9 desaturase in transgenic plant tissue (5866789)  
     Transgenic methods and compositions for producing parthenocarpic fruits and vegetables (5877400)  
     Pretreatment of microprojectiles prior to using in a particle gun (5879918)  
     Maize protein for insect control (5882668)  
     High threonine derivatives of .alpha.-hordothionin (5885801)  
     High methionine derivatives of .alpha.-hordothionin (5885802)  
     Stable transformation of plant cells (5886244)  
     Inbred maize line PH0B4 (5889188)  
     Soybean variety 92B51 (5895835)  
     Soybean variety 91B01 (5900524)  
     Soybean variety 92B01 (5900526)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (34K77) (5902921)  
     Antimicrobial peptides and plant disease resistance based thereon (5905187)  
     Soybean variety 93B45 (5905189)  
     Plant promoter sequences (5907086)  
     Soybean variety 95B71 (5908976)  
     Soybean variety 93B25 (5910633)  
     Soybean variety 90B72 (5910634)  
     Soybean variety 94B81 (5912417)  
     Inbred maize line PH03D (5917125)  
     Soybean variety 93B51 (5917129)  
     Soybean variety 91B91 (5917130)  
     Inbred maize line PHDN7 (5917134)  
     Soybean variety 90B31 (5920002)  
     Nucleic acid sequence encoding FLP recombinase (5929301)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 32J55 (5929311)  
     Inbred maize line PHMJ2 (5929313)  
     Plant transformation method using agrobacterium species adhered to microprojectiles (5932782)  
     Methods of producing feed by reducing endogenous protein levels in soybean (5936140)  
     Soybean variety 94B01 (5936141)  
     Soybean variety 93B34 (5936142)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 33H67 (5936147)  
     Inbred maize line PH1GC (5936148)  
     Inbred maize line PH2CB (5939607)  
     Inbred maize line PH080 (5939608)  
     Soybean variety 91B02 (5942667)  
     Soybean variety 92B05 (5942668)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed (3476) (5942669)  
     Inbred maize line PH14T (5942670)  
     Inbred maize line PH185 (5942671)  
     Soybean variety 93B01 (5945586)  
     Soybean variety 90B93 (5945587)  
     Derivatives of Bauhinia purpurea lectin and their use as larvicides (5945589)  
     Positional cloning of brown stem rot resistance genes in soybeans (5948953)  
     Inbred maize line PH19V (5948957)  
     Soybean variety 90B21 (5952549)  
     Soybean variety 91B52 (5952550)  
     P gene promoter constructs for floral-tissue preferred gene expression (5955361)  
     Brassica napus vegetable oil wherein the levels of oleic, alpha-linolenic, and saturated fatty acids are endogenously formed and simultaneously provided in an atypical highly beneficial distribution via genetic control (5955623)  
     Soybean variety 95B41 (5959185)  
     Functional characterization of genes (5962764)  
     Induction of male sterility in plants by expression of high levels of avidin (5962769)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 36K50 (5962771)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 38D66 (5962772)  
     Soybean variety 95B33 (5973234)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 39K38 (5973237)  
     DNA ligase assay (5976806)  
     Soybean variety 91B64 (5977445)  
     Inbred maize line PHFW4 (5977451)  
     Inbred maize line PH1M7 (5977456)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed 39T68 (5977457)  
     Methods for agrobacterium-mediated transformation (5981840)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 36A43 (5981854)  
     Forages (5985666)  
     Maize promoter sequence for leaf- and stalk-preferred gene expression (5986174)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 31G20 (5986183)  
     Inbred maize line PH1TB (5986184)  
     Inbred maize line PH24D (5986185)  
     Stable transformation of plant cells (5990387)  
     High lysine derivatives of .alpha.-hordothionin (5990389)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 34A03 (5990392)  
     Inbred maize line PH1CN (5990393)  
     Methods of regeneration of medicago sativa and expressing foreign DNA in same (5994626)  
     Inbred maize line PH09E (5998711)  
     Soybean variety 92B21 (6005168)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 32J49 (6005172)  
     Molecular methods of hybrid seed production (6013859)  
     Peptide derivatives of tachyplesin having antimicrobial activity (6015941)  
     Hybrid maize plant & seed (6018109)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 36H36 (6018110)  
     Hybrid maize plant and seed 38R52